Name: Anchovy Butter
Ingredients: 8 anchovies, washed and picked; 1 cup fresh butter

Anchovy Butter

Ingredients

8 anchovies, washed and picked
1 cup fresh butter

Directions

Pound the anchovies in a stone mortar until smooth.
Mix the anchovy paste with double the quantity of fresh butter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Anchovies: Provide the salty, savoury depth that defines the butter's flavour.
Fresh butter: Carries the anchovy flavour and gives the spread a smooth, rich texture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.